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It looks like Connecticut could be following in the footsteps of New Jersey: according to stamford.dailyvoice.com , state senators are considering proposing legislation that would require Insurance companies to encrypt any sensitive personal data. If...

Wyoming has approved two Senate bills that update the state's data privacy laws. Senate Files 35 and 36 expand on the definition of what constitutes a breach of personal information, and what steps organizations must take when a data breach takes...

According to wreg.com , patients at the Boston Baskin Cancer Foundation recently learned they were potential victims of a data breach. This is one of those cases where one is left wondering if administrators thought things through: HIPAA encryption software...

Riverside County Regional Medical Center, in California, has reported the loss of another laptop computer from hospital grounds. It is the second such incident for 2014 – the first occurring in June and the latest one in December – and yet another episode...

A data breach can be a devastating experience. Even more so if the breach involves a particular profession where privacy, anonymity, and secrecy happen to be paramount. That's why a medical data breach hits people more closely than a retailer's...

As 2014 winds down, I was really under the belief that data breaches caused by the loss or theft of unencrypted laptops were really down – I hadn't come across too many stories involving them over the past year, relatively speaking. I had attributed...